ElPopeAdventures

Three things in one mod, each of which can be switched off on its own:

• Rideable deer. Tame a wild deer with berries, put a saddle on it and ride it.
• The Mage class. Play a mage from day one in the Meadows. You get a mana pool, and a new staff in every biome: frost first, then fire, then arcane. Mana cocktails are brewed from each biome's fruit.
• Inventory quality of life. Bigger stacks, a sort key, quick stack to nearby chests, and crafting/building from nearby chests.

Everything is crafted in game. No cheats or console commands are needed.

Installation

Use r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager, search for ElPopeAdventures, and click install. BepInExPack_Valheim is installed with it automatically. Then start the game from the mod manager (Start modded).

For a manual install, install BepInExPack_Valheim first, then copy ElPopeAdventures.dll into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/ElPopeAdventures/.

Multiplayer: every player needs the mod with the same config. Installing it on the dedicated server too is recommended.

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Rideable deer

Tame. Drop raspberries, blueberries, mushrooms or carrots near a wild deer, then back off or crouch so it doesn't bolt. A calm deer walks over and eats. It stays fed for 5 minutes, and taming only progresses while it is fed and not frightened, so drop a few pieces. Look at the deer to see its taming progress. By default a deer needs 10 minutes of fed time.

Saddle. Use a Lox saddle on the tame deer, the same way you saddle a Lox: put the saddle in your hotbar, look at the deer and press that hotbar key.

Ride. Aim at the saddle and press E. The controls are the Lox's: move forward to walk, steer with the camera, and hold Run to gallop (this uses the deer's stamina).

Using the deer's body toggles follow/stay. Wild deer, the Lox and every other creature are left completely vanilla. Only tamed deer (a separate creature, RideableDeer_Tame) get the riding parts.

The Mage class

1. Craft a Mage Tome at the workbench and read it (eat it). Your character becomes a Mage and gains 50 mana, plus 20 more for every boss defeated. Mana is the game's eitr (the purple bar), so eitr food adds to it as well. This choice is saved on your character.
2. Craft a staff. Staffs cast the vanilla staff spells, scaled to their biome. They train Elemental Magic and upgrade like vanilla weapons.
3. Drink cocktails to refill mana instantly.

Staffs

Biome	Staff	School	Where	Ingredients
Meadows	Frost Staff	Frost	Workbench	10 Wood, 4 Deer hide, 1 Deer trophy
Black Forest	Glacial Staff	Frost	Forge	10 Core wood, 6 Bronze, 10 Greydwarf eye, 1 Greydwarf shaman trophy
Swamp	Ember Staff	Fire	Forge lvl 2	10 Ancient bark, 8 Iron, 4 Surtling core, 1 Draugr trophy
Mountain	Blaze Staff	Fire	Forge lvl 3	10 Ancient bark, 10 Silver, 6 Obsidian, 6 Surtling core, 1 Cultist trophy
Plains	Arcane Staff	Arcane (lightning + spirit)	Forge lvl 4	10 Fine wood, 10 Black metal, 6 Linen thread, 1 Fuling shaman trophy
Mistlands	Rime / Inferno / Mistrune Staff	Frost / Fire / Arcane	Galdr table	20 Yggdrasil wood, 16 Refined eitr, plus 4 Freeze gland / 4 Surtling core / 2 Black core
Ashlands	Hoarfrost / Surtr's / Stormcaller Staff	Frost / Fire / Arcane	Galdr table lvl 2	10 Ashwood, 4 Flametal, 3 Celestial feather, plus 6 Freeze gland / 2 Molten core / 1 Charred warlock trophy
Deep North	Jotun Frost / Muspel / Norn Staff	Frost / Fire / Arcane	Galdr table lvl 3	10 Frostwood, 10 Gold, 5 Norn thread, plus 10 Ice / 4 Molten core / 1 Jotun witch trophy

From the Mistlands on, each staff matches the damage and mana cost of the vanilla staffs.

Cocktails and the tome

Item	Where	Ingredients	Effect
Mage Tome	Workbench	2 Deer hide, 5 Resin, 3 Dandelion	Become a Mage
Meadow Berry Cocktail	Workbench	6 Raspberries, 2 Dandelion	+40 mana
Blueberry Cocktail	Cauldron	6 Blueberries, 2 Thistle	+70 mana
Cloudberry Cocktail	Cauldron	6 Cloudberries, 2 Barley	+110 mana

A recipe appears once you have picked up each of its ingredients, like vanilla recipes. Every recipe can be changed in the config.

Inventory quality of life

Feature	How	Default
Bigger stacks	Automatic	4x vanilla (wood stacks to 200)
Sort	Press K with the inventory open. This sorts your inventory and the open chest: stacks are merged, then items are grouped by type and name. Your hotbar stays as it is.	K
Quick stack	Press L anywhere. Items go into chests within 10 m that already hold that item. Hotbar and equipped items stay with you.	L, 10 m
Craft from chests	Automatic. Crafting, upgrading and building also use materials from chests within 20 m. Your inventory is used first.	20 m

Only chests you are allowed to open are used: never someone else's private chest, never a chest in a ward that you aren't permitted in, and never a chest another player has open.

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Config

The file is BepInEx/config/ElPope.ElPopeAdventures.cfg. It is created the first time you start the game, and you can also edit it from r2modman's Config editor.

• [General]: EnableDeer, EnableMage and EnableInventory switch each part on or off (takes effect after restarting the game).
• [Deer - Taming], [Deer - Riding] and [Deer - Saddle] set taming foods and time, saddle item, speed, stamina, and the saddle position (HeightAdjust / ForwardAdjust if you float above or sink into the deer).
• [Mage - Class], [Mage - Spells], [Mage - Cocktails] and [Mage - Recipes] set base mana, mana per boss, damage and mana cost multipliers, cocktail strength and cooldown, and every recipe.
• [Inventory - Stacks], [Inventory - Sort], [Inventory - Quick stack] and [Inventory - Craft from chests] set the stack multiplier, hotkeys (set a key to None to turn that feature off), ranges, and hotbar handling.

Removing the mod

Removing the mod is safe for your world. Wild deer, vanilla items and chests are unaffected, and tame deer are hidden while the mod is missing and come back if you reinstall it. Mage items (staffs, tomes, cocktails) are deleted by the game if you load a character or open a chest holding them without the mod, so don't play without the mod while carrying them. If you lower the stack multiplier, stacks that are already bigger than the new limit stay as they are until you split or use them.

Troubleshooting

Messages appear in BepInEx/LogOutput.log, tagged ElPopeAdventures.Deer, ElPopeAdventures.Mage or ElPopeAdventures.Inventory. If a game update breaks something the mod relies on, it logs what went missing and switches only that feature off. The rest of the game keeps working.

Credits

• The deer's rider seat offset comes from the open-source Bicicreta mount mod.
• Giving animals a Humanoid body and a flee-don't-fight mount AI follows the open-source AllTameable mod.